Human Resource Development

1. Introduction to HRD; Ronan Carbery.- PART I: FUNDAMENTALS OF HRD.- 2. Strategic HRD; Martin McCracken and Thomas N. Garavan.- 3. Managing the HRD Function; Ronan Carbery.- 4. Individual-Level Learning; Linda Dowling-Hetherington.- 5. Organizational Learning; Ronan Carbery.- 6. Organization Development; Claire Armstrong.- PART II: PROCESS OF HRD.- 7. Identifying Learning Needs; Paul Donovan.- 8. Designing HRD Programmes; Jean McCarthy.- 9. Delivering HRD Programmes; Christine Cross and Mary Fitzpatrick.- 10. Evaluating HRD Programmes; Sue Mulhall.- PART III: CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES.- 11. Managing Talented Employees; Clare Rigg.- 12. Leadership Development; Thomas N. Garavan.- 13. Graduate Employability; TJ McCabe.- 14. Ethics, Corporate Social Responsibility, Sustainability and HRD; Clíodhna MacKenzie.

Ronan Carbery is Senior Lecturer in Management in the School of Management and Marketing at University College Cork, Ireland. Ronan is co-editor of the European Journal of Training and Development. His research interests include career development, talent management and participation in HRD activities. Ronan was awarded the University of Limerick Teaching Excellence award in 2013. He is co-editor of Organisational Behaviour: An Introduction (2016) and Human Resource Management: A Concise Introduction (2013) both published by Palgrave Macmillan.

Christine Cross lectures in Organisational Behaviour and Human Resource Management at the Kemmy Business School, University of Limerick, Ireland where she has extensive experience of teaching at undergraduate, postgraduate and post-experience levels and has been actively involved in curriculum review and development. Prior to joining UL she worked for a number of the world's leading organisations including Lloyd's bank, Dell Computers and Mars Inc in both management and human resource management roles. In 2010 she was a Visiting Professor at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Reus, Spain.